Is fadscannán é Arracht atá léirithe ag Macalla Teo. le cabhair ó TG4, Bord Scannán na hÉireann agus Údarás Craolachán na hÉireann. Scríobtha agus faoi stiúir ag Tom Sullivan, léirithe ag Cúán Mac Conghail. Táthar ag súil go mbeidh Arracht sna pictiúrlanna i mí Lúnasa 2020. Suite i gConamara, Co na Gaillimhe sa bhliain 1845 […]
The ad is called “the gift that gives back”. Let us sincerely hope, for this woman’s sake, that what it gives him back is a divorce: My fellow men: If you only ever listen to one piece of advice, let it be this: Do not, under any circumstances, present your wife with an exercise bike […]
Actress Gal Gadot will star as a different but equally impressive Wonder Woman next summer when she plays the part of a Polish heroine who risked her life to save 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis.
On an ordinary January day in 1927, as Yocundo Durán walked home in Chihuahua, Mexico, he crossed paths with Federal Gen. Miguel Valle, who was walking out of a local tavern. The general recognized Durán and had one of his soldiers detain him and ask, “Are you a Knight of Columbus?” Durán confirmed that he […]
A Belfast actor with Down Syndrome is celebrating after winning a best actor gong in the US. James Martin won the best actor accolade at the New York City TV festival for his first film, Ups and Downs, a BBC NI drama which tells the story of a road trip to a concert for two […]
WARNING: The following contains content of a violent and sexual nature. The pornographic and violent show Game of Thrones is finally over, and thus we no longer have to watch many prominent conservative commentators thunder about Judeo-Christian morality while also plugging a show that featured 82 nude scenes in the first 67 (out of a total […]
An interesting question posed on twitter this morning by David Quinn: Caroline West of DCU wants children taught 'porn literacy'. Question; does she share the view of some researchers in this area that there is such a thing as 'ethical porn', or does she believe porn is bad, per se? #todaysor — David Quinn (@DavQuinn) […]
November 21 marks the 99th anniversary of one of the most momentous days in modern Irish history. That date in 1920 fell on a Sunday, the first one in this country to be given the sombre appellation Bloody for it was the most violent day in the War of Independence. Thirty two people in all […]
After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Iraq, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war — the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs. This was not a physical injury that could heal with medication and time but a “moral injury” — a wound to the soul […]
Only a few years ago, the aggressive “New Atheist” movement was on the march, with rhetorical brawlers like Christopher Hitchens and renowned biologists like Richard Dawkins leading the charge against religion and the last vestiges of Christian faith in the West. Religion, Hitchens famously stated, “poisons everything,” and could only be considered, at best, humanity’s “first and […]
Alright, alright. The jokes and the sneers kind of write themselves, don’t they? When Harry Potter star Emma Watson says that she is “self-partnered”, the first thing that comes to mind is “why didn’t she just say “single”?” There’s also a very easy argument to be made that describing oneself as “self-partnered” is a perfect […]
“History is written by the winners” is a trite adage which was probably first circulated by some losers. Ever since, it has been used to cast a shadow of doubt over every account of struggles between human beings of which history purports to tell us. Searching through our past is a sacred pursuit. It is […]